Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:41:35 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update.FreeBSD.org / No mirrors remaining, giving up Message-ID: <20081007154135.535dbd12@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20081007075524.GA72002@mavetju.org> References: <94136a2c0810060139r740c3a96hc9c79028e7b93a4d@mail.gmail.com> <20081007075524.GA72002@mavetju.org>
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On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:55:24 +1100 Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote: > > $ freebsd-update fetch > > Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from > > update.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > I've heard this before and it is caused by resolvers (most likely > your router?) which don't understand requests for SRV records. freebsd-update and portsnap should fall back to the configured server if they can't get SRV records, they should be able to work through an http-proxy without any DNS access at all on the local machine. It sounds like a bug if SRV records are needed.
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